{"id":309160,"date":"2026-10-18T06:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309160\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T06:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:34:52","slug":"no-kings-protests-around-lehigh-valley-urge-voters-participation-in-midterm-election-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309160\/","title":{"rendered":"No Kings protests around Lehigh Valley urge voters participation in midterm election | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. &#8211; Hundreds of people in the area braved the cold to practice their First Amendment right on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>No Kings protests popped up in several areas throughout the Lehigh Valley today, aiming to encourage eligible voters to make their voices heard in the November 3rd midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>People going to the event in Easton this morning were also encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to donate to Second Harvest Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Lehigh Valley wasn&#8217;t the only area where these events were taking place.<\/p>\n<p>People all over the country, from DC to Florida to Texas, were getting out there this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of focusing solely on protests, they were urging people to vote in the midterms since typically only around 50% of eligible voters cast a ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. &#8211; Hundreds of people in the area braved the cold to practice their First Amendment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1930,153,155,154,4158,836,902,744,4163,157,14287,5469,126555,55866,4162,386,50,382,3478,66,1823,1824],"class_list":["post-309160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-accountability","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-democracy","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-group-decision-making","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-midterm-election","tag-no-kings","tag-no-kings-rally","tag-organized-events","tag-political-corruption","tag-political-events","tag-politics","tag-politics-of-the-united-states","tag-rally","tag-united-states","tag-vote","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}